Catalogue des films de « John Fernhout »

Les formations changeantes de nuages paisibles, blancs ou menaçants au-dessus des polders, rivières, champs de tulipes, villages et villes néerlandais sont aussi spectaculaires que la belle campagne hollandaise. Elles font partie des paysages...

En 1944, le port d’Anvers était libéré par les Alliés. Mais il fallait encore conquérir les îles hollandaises longeant l’Escaut pour pouvoir y accéder. Le bombardement des digues provoqua l’inondation de l’île de Walcheren, faisant...

Documentary about the resistance of the Chinese against the Japanese invasion and occupation from Manchuria. The Chinese had joined forces against this common enemy. The nationalistic Kuomintang, led by Chiang Kai-sjek and the communist party...

The production company Contemporary Historians was set up to raise money for a documentary about the Spanish civil war, filmed on the spot. With John Ferno and initially with John Dos Passos, who when he left the crew, was replaced by Ernest...

The Zuiderzee Works episode of "We Are Building" was elaborated to the much longer film "Zuiderzee" by Joris Ivens in 1930. In 1934 Ivens used the same material, and additional footage, to make another version: "New Earth". This time the film got...

Joris Ivens was commissioned by the international creosote manufacturers to make an instructional film on the winning and use of creosote, which was obtained from coal tar and used to preserve wood. The Continental Committee for the Propagation of...

Film about the closing of the Wieringermeer dyke.

"Philips Radio" is considered the third important Dutch avant-garde film of Joris Ivens, after "The Bridge" and "Rain". The film was commissioned by Philips in order to show the modern production process of radio's in the factories and offices in...

Documentary, made to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the ANBB, in which all aspect from construction work and the union are is shown. Some parts were also shown separately: NVV-CONGRES (NVV Conference / Congrès du NVV), Jeugddag (Day of Youth /...

In 1929 Joris Ivens got his first commission for which the CAPI film production unit was set up: it was the Dutch Building Workers Union who asked him to make a film on the occasion of their 25th anniversary. We Are Building is a film on the...